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The Kulgera/Finke Road ran west-to-east for 145 kilometres from Kulgera on the Stuart Highway to the tiny, remote aboriginal settlement of Finke, just seven kilometres from Lambert Centre, the recognised, expertly surveyed geographical centre of the Australian continent.
Like many of the isolated Outback roads in the Northern Territory, the Kulgera/Finke Road consisted of seemingly endless kilometres of bone-shaking, back-jarring corrugations and deep potholes filled with bull-dust as fine as talcum powder that were virtually invisible until your wheels hit them.
Occasionally, perhaps once or twice a year, the government would appoint someone to grade the road and smooth out the potholes and corrugations. However, over such a long distance, it took several days to complete the task an
